Folding grate and support for camp stoves



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1,518,650 L. B. GOLDBERG ET AL FOLDING GRATE AND SUPPORT FOR CAMP STOVES Filed Spt. 26, 1922 26 25 M;% wgz/my Patented Dec. 9, 1924.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS B. GOLDBERG, NATHAN GOLDBERG, JACOB M. GOLDBERG, AND WILLIAM GOLDBERG, OF DENVER, COLORADO.

FOLDING- GRATE AND SUPPORT FOR CAMP STOVES.

Application filed September 26, 1922. Serial No. 590,611.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, LoUIs B. GOLDBERG, NATHAN GOLDBERG, JACOB M. GOLDBERG, and WVILLIAM GOLDBERG, citizens of the United States, and residents of the city and county of Denver, State of Colorado, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Folding Grates and Support for Camp Stoves; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable other-s skilled in the art to which it .appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a stand which may serve either as a grate for supporting vessels over camp fires, or as a support for portable camp stoves, particularly those having liquid fuel burners supplied from a tank.

Briefly the invention comprises a collapsible frame in the form of two side rails whose ends are provided with irregular openings which receive the ends of end bars to which legs are secured. The openings permit the end bars to be swung through angles of something over 90 from operative position to folded position so as to bring the legs alongside the side rails for convenient transportation. The end bars may also carry swinging arms to support the open cover of a portable stove, or for suspension of objects therefrom.

Heretofore, in using portable camp stoves using liquid fuel, the stove had to be set on the ground or some support therefor had to be improvised. The present invention provides a satisfactory support for such a stove, said support being foldable into compact form. In addition, if an open fire be desired for cooking, the present invention may be employed as a grate to support vessels thereover.

In the accompanying drawings wherein certain embodiments of the invention are disclosed by way of illustration,

Fig. 1 is a plan view of the stand ready for use;

Fig. 2 is an elevational detail taken from line 22 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a detail taken on the line 33 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is an elevational detail showing the parts of Fig. 2 in folded relation;

Fig. 5 is a detail in plan showing the parts of Figs. 2 and 4 folded for transportation.

The stand comprises a pair of side rails 10, which if desired for purposes of rigidity may be provided with cross connecting rods 12 in the case where it is to be used solely as a support for a stove, and necessarily will be provided with such rods 12 for the support of vessels where the device is to be used as a grate over an open fire. End bars 14 are mounted for limited rotary or folding movement in irregular slots 15 in the ends of the side rails 10. Said slots 15 are somewhat L-shaped, the lower walls thereof being parallel to the edges of the rails as indicated at 16, while the outermost end or side wall 18 is inclined inwardly as it extends upwardly in each instance, and the remaining or connecting wall 20 in each instance is curved so as to form rather narrow passages at each end of the slot or opening 15 while the middle portion thereof is rather large. At each end of each end bar 14 an inwardly directed slot or notch 22 is formed the sides of which are adapted to work alongside the side rail 10, while the connecting Web 114 extending from the bar 14 Works in the opening or slot 15, the tongue 24 on the outer side of notch 22 being bent over at approximately right angles to lie along the side of the rail 10 and assist retention of bar 14 in position.

Secured to the end bars 14 are swinging legs 25 pivoted at 26 to permit the legs to take a slightly angular position when in use for more rigidly maintaining the stand in set-up position, the movement of these legs being limited by stops 28 carried by said end bars 14. The operative relation of these parts is indicated in Figs. 1, 2 and 3. When desired to foldup the stand, the legs 25 are swung to the position indicated in Fig. 5 so as to lie parallel with the side rails 10 and against the cross rods 12 when theend bars [4 are rotated to the folded position seen in Figs. 4 and 5.

When the end bars 14 are in operative position the upper portion of each web 114 is disposed in the upper portion of the opening 15 and the upper edge of the bar is ill-- clined inward so that the upper edge of the web 114 engages the upper part of the curved connecting wall-2O thus holding the respective bar 14 in operative position with the legs 25 inclined outward as they extend downward. When the legs 25 are also swung outward laterally so that they are diagonally disposed with respect to the framework, the stand is securely positioned, the legs being held by stops 28.

In order to fold the stand up for packing,

the legs 25 are swung so as to be parallel to tion of the opening opposite the middle.

of the curved wall permits ready movement of the body of web 114 in said open ing. This operation brings the legs into position against rods 12 and in the plane of side rails 10.

In addition, the side rails 10 and the end bars 14 may have their supporting function supplemented by arms pivotally connected. at 32 with the endbars 14, these arms 30 being adapted to be swungback to engage the ends of side rails 10 and thereby present rests at their ends forthe lid or cover of a portable stove resting on the stand. The arm 30 at the left of Fig. 1 is shown. in. operative position for engaging such a cover, while the arm 30 at the right is. shown in position approaching folded position along-- side its end bar 14. Said arm at the right could be used in the position shown forthe purpose of suspending some vessel over the fire beneath the grate, while the other arm 30 when in the position shown could also be used to suspend somevessel slightly at the rear of the stand as for keepingthe-contents of the vessel warm.

We claim:

1. A camp stand comprising side rails, end bars connected to said rails by means which permit thebars to have a limited rotation about their axes, and legs on said. end bars, said legs being pivotally connected to the bars.

2. A camp stand comprising side rails, end bars swingingly connected therewith, and legs mounted onthe end bars,said end bars having a limited rotary movement somewhat greater than so that the legs may be swung'from folded position in approximate parallelism with the side rails into such position that said legs extend outward as they extend downward in order to steady the stand.

3. A folding stand comprising side rails, end bars swinging-lyconnected therewith,

. legs mounted on said end bars and. adapted to be folded into approximate parallelism with said side rails, and to swing, downward and outward with said end bars, said legs being swingingly mountedjon said end bars so as to, swlng outward laterally, means. to-

bring the legs into inclined position with the lower portions of the legs extending outwardly longitudinally of the stand, and means to limit such longitudinal swinging motion of said bars and legs.

4. A folding stand comprising side rails, end bars swingingly mounted thereon, legs mounted on said bars, and supporting arms swingingly mounted on said end bars and adaptedtov swing upward and outward over a side rail to engage therewith whereby an object may be supported beyondthe side of the stand.

5. A folding stand comprising side rails having-openings at their ends, a portion of each opening extending longitudinally of the rail and a portion extending transversely thereof, end barshaving their ends mounted in said openings and adapted to lie in either of said portions and to be swung out of one portion into the other,

and legs on said bars.

6. A folding stand comprising side rails having openings in their end portions, a portion of each-opening extending longitudinally of the rail and a portion extending transversely of the rail but somewhat out of the perpendicularto the length .of the rail, and legs carried by said rails through the medium of saidopenings whereby said 2 legs may be swung from. foldedposition into positioninclined, outward at their lower ends for steadying. the stand. when set up.

7. A folding stand comprising side rails having openings. in their ends, endbars car.- ried in said openings, and legs mounted. on said.bars,.a portion of each opening extendinrr longitudinally of the railand a. portion extending transversely of the rail slightly out of the perpendicular to the length of the rail,.wl1ereby the legs may. be swung downward with their lower portions inclined outward and the endsof the bars will be braced in the transverse portionof the-opening, and whereby the ends of the bars may be. swung; into the longitudinal. portion of the opening to cause the legsto lie alongside said rails.

8. A folding camp stand comprising side rails, end bars mounted. thereon by means thatrpermits slight rotation, legs carried by said end bars and adapted to be swung from folded position alongside said rails downward and outward into supporting position, and .means. to limit the outward movement of the legs to maintain thesame in such supporting position.

9. A folding camp, grate comprising side rails, end bars mounted thereonby means that permits slightrotation, legs carriedl by said end bars and adapted to be swungfrom folded'position alongside said rails downward andontward into inclined supporting position means to limit such outward movement, said legs being movable also laterally, and means to limit such lateral movement.

10. A folding camp stand comprising side rails having irregular openings in their ends, end bars having their ends mounted in said openings legs on said end bars and movable With said bars from a horizontal position into an upright supporting position, the ends of the bars Working in said openings, and a tongue extending laterally from each end of each end bar and adapted to engage the outer side of the respective rail for retaining the bar end in position in the respective opening.

In testimony whereof We aflix our signatures.

LOUIS B. GOLDBERG. NATHAN GOLDBERG. JACOB M. GOLDBERG. WM. GOLDBERG. 

